We invaded Iraq TWICE – 1991 and 2003. The truth that we supported Hussein and his crimes for many years walked. We started a rumor that Bin Laden instigated attacks on 9/11. We invaded Afghanistan in 2001. The truth of bin Laden's CIA connections still walks. Let’s stop the cycle of lies. Let’s get the full story before we believe our leaders!

It is not the truth we fear. Most people know there is something suspicious about the official theory of 9/11. Box cutters? Seriously? Two of the "passenger flights" never took off! Several "hijackers" alive after 9/11! The implication of the truth, that forces we do not understand really control our nation, scares us. The best antidote for fear is the truth. Rumors Fly, Truth Walks: How Lies Become Our History shows the way to create a society where our leaders tell us the truth.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice - United States Senator Barry GoldwaterMany political observers cringed when candidate Barry Goldwater delivered this phrase at the Republican National Convention in 1964. It sounded like Goldwater would put no limit on United States intervention in Viet Nam.Years later, I believe Goldwater’s comment reflects the way the world really works. The words are malleable enough to justify any action taken for any cause.

What is extremism?

It depends upon to whom one refers. Goldwater spoke by implication of aggression by the old Soviet Union or North Viet Nam. Perhaps tacitly, he implied the reason there was no limit to actions we were willing to instigate was because we feared what the “enemy” might do.

So, if we believe another nation or group of people oppose us, or may take something we want, they are “extremists.” We believed that North Viet Nam was a threat to our ally South Viet Nam, so some of the forces in the Gulf of Tonkin contacted President Johnson and lied about the North Vietnamese firing upon our ships. Goldwater backed Johnson’s subsequent response to step up the bombing and to ask for Congressional support for expanded force in that region.We were not extremists. We just did what we had to do to protect an ally and our interests in that area of the world. We also did not want anyone else in the world to believe we would back down from the threat the “enemy” posed to us.

In short, we can use extreme measures, but we are not extremists.

What is liberty?

Again, it seems to matter whose liberty to which we refer. Our liberty is something we find necessary to defend. Our Declaration of Independence makes mention of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Liberty places second after the need to live first but before our own happiness. It seems, then, that life is meaningless without liberty.

The irony is not lost upon me that we often destroy the liberty of others (by invading, bombing, disenfranchising, etc.) to make sure that we have our own. We must fail to recognize that simple reciprocity would deprive us of what we say we prize.

So what, then, do we make of vice?It seems that we do not assign the word vice to ourselves but rather to those whom we oppose. The communists, the terrorists, the extremists, the fascists and everyone else our nation has cornered at the point of a gun. The threats we perceive are wrong; the threats we use to counter the perceived threats are right.

I guess, in my heart, I know Goldwater was right. We do whatever we think necessary to make the world safe for us to dominate. Then we plead danger because people ask too many questions when the going is safe.

Dean Hartwell spoke with Bob Tuskin on Thursday, January 9, 2014 about Hartwell's new book, Rumors Fly Truth Walks and the future of the movement for truth about events like 9/11. Several people called in to ask questions. You may hear both hours of their conversation here!You may buy the book here!

Dean Hartwell will be a guest on the Bob Tuskin Radio Show on Thursday, January 9, 2014 at 10:00 Eastern/7:00 Pacific Time! The two will discuss Hartwell's book about 9/11, "Rumors Fly, Truth Walks," available on Amazon here.

Dean T. Hartwell pulls no punches about the events of 9/11. There were no hijackings, for one thing. And none of the planes alleged as part of the plot actually flew any passengers!Hartwell admits he was mistaken in previously saying that passengers landed in Cleveland that day. After reviewing all available information, he says that Flight 175 likely landed in Cleveland but no passengers were on board!This book calls out those who have lied to us about 9/11 and explains to the reader why they lied. Then he describes the road to a peaceful society as a long and winding one, but the road he prefers over hearing lie after lie!